Plan For Literary Analysis

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Standards To Be Covered

  • RL (Reading Standards) 1 – cite textual evidence to support analysis
  • RL 2 – determine multiple themes or central ideas and analyze their development in a text
  • RL 4 – understand connotations, figurative language, multiple meanings; evaluate diction;
  • RL 5 – identify and analyze structure of a text
  • RL 6 - identify and analyze “subtext” – e.g. irony, satire, understatement
  • RL 7 – analyze multiple interpretations of literature (e.g. play, novel, movie, poem)

  • RI 1 (informational texts) – provide textual evidence to support analysis; infer
  • RI 2 – identify multiple ideas, analyze their development over the text, how they build on one another to create a thesis
  • RI 3 – analyze a sequence of events and how they interact and develop over the course of the text
  • RI 4 – diction: use of loaded words, connotations, figurative language
  • RI 5 – analyze structure
  • RI 6 – author’s POV and how it is conveyed; how it contributes to the thesis, theme, style
  • RI 7 – incorporate multiple sources from multiple mediums
  • RI 8 & 9 - use of logos in Amer. Lit.; analyze historical significance, arguments, ideas and purposes of Amer. Documents

  • SL 3 (Speaking & Listening) – evaluate speaker’s POV, use of reasoning (logos), evidence, rhetoric, diction, structure, tone

  • L 3 (Language) – Apply knowledge of language: appropriate use of language, tone, style according to purpose, audience
  • L4 – diction: multiple meanings, vocabulary development
  • L5 – figurative language; diction; literary & rhetorical devices (hyperbole, paradox, irony)

  • WS 2 (Writing Standards) – written examination and communication of ideas, concepts and information: develop a thesis statement; organize ideas and information that builds on one another to create a comprehensive essay; APA format
    • identify the most relevant information—facts, details, extended definitions, evidence and examples
    • use transitions and syntax appropriately
    • use appropriate vocab and rhetorical devices
    • maintain academic style, tone and conventions
    • conclude appropriate to the preceding information, including what the examination/explanation implies, i.e., its significance

Skills

  • purpose/thesis
  • audience
  • context
  • subject
  • genre
  • speaker
  • Figurative Language
    • Hyperbole
    • Metaphor
    • Simile
    • Understatement
    • Anecdote
    • Imagery
    • Symbolism
    • Allusion
    • Analogy
  • Structure:
    • Problem/Solution, Compare/Contrast, Order of Importance, Cause & Effect
    • Unity
    • Coherence
    • Transitions
  • Diction, Loaded words, connotation, denotation
  • Syntax: rhythm, parallelism, repetition, rhetorical questions
  • Literary Devices & Literary Vocabulary (See Ms. Williams handouts)

Concepts

Includes:

  • analyzing how an argument is crafted
  • literary and rhetorical analysis (how an author conveys a theme or thesis)
  • explain/summarize ideas

Writing Tasks


Multi-Draft Prompt will include (11th and 12th Grade)
  • Students researching and finding their own criticism and research sources
  • Referencing other literary criticism and/or other research sources
  • Pre-determine page length; break the 5 paragraph mold – quality
  • Themes: across multiple text; text to self, world, or text; multiple media vs. text; characters and theme
  • Synthesis
  • Vocabulary/Figurative Language
  • Elaborate/ Extend Commentary and analysis
  • Minimal/Relevant summary
  • MLA/ Text Citing & Work Cited page for resources outside text1
    • 1 direct quote for every 5 partial quote
    • Appropriate and relevant quotes
    • Plagiarism vs. summery vs paraphrase vs. quotes
  • Proper syntax, grammar, transitions
  • Templates: Conversation starters, They say/I say

Multi-draft (11th and 12th Grade)
  • Students researching and finding their own criticism and research sources
  • Referencing other literary criticism and/or other research sources
  • Peer Revisions/ Substantive revisions
  • Pre-determine page length; break the 5 paragraph mold – quality
  • Themes: across multiple text; text to self, world, or text; multiple media vs. text; characters and theme
  • Synthesis
  • Vocabulary/Figurative Language
  • Elaborate/ Extend Commentary and analysis
  • Minimal/Relevant summary
  • MLA/ Text Citing & Work Cited page for resources outside text1